Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Consists primarily of advertisements for various Liggett & Myers tobacco products such as Chesterfield, Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, ca. 1910-1950s, as well as advertisements for competitors during the 1970s. Also includes scripts for radio and television commercials, 1949-1961.
Contains sound recordings of radio programs on issues related to the work of the Highlander Folk School, including labor issues with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contains correspondence and other files, including considerable material pertaining to radio productions at the university during the 1950s and a large number of scripts.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes material that documents three advertising agencies : D' Arey Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), Benton & Bowles (B&B), and D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius (D-MM). Most of the radio related material is in the "Clients Series, 1931-1985, n.d., bulk 1970-1980s, n.d." Includes material about the Maxwell House Radio Showboat, May, 1933, and six scripts about great composers broadcast on Prudential's The Family Hour, 1943.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The Archives are organized into more than 45 separate collections, each with its own online finding aid that describes in very general terms the types of documents in the collection and which may or may not include radio related material. For example, the "Quaker Oats Account Files, 1945-1965, 1977" collection contains 3l Aunt Jemima reports, 1945-1965, 1977 but does not indicate whether radio is discussed in any of the reports . A complete list of the JWT finding aids is available at: http://scriptori um .lib.duke.edu/ dynaweb/findaids/
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History